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The best Grey Cup game was in Hamilton.
The best city to visit is Montreal.
But when you want a community that totally absorbs the Grey Cup, the CFL couldn’t have picked a better place than Regina ahead of those other bidders. The Queen City will play host to its fourth Grey Cup in 2020. Through the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, CFL governors thought it best to rotate the league’s championship games through Canada’s biggest cities — Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. When those huge cities had domed stadiums it also made sense to shield the game and its paying customers from Canadian winter weather.
The CFL has since realized that sharing the game among all its franchises makes sense, cold temperatures nothwithstanding. Regina has sparkling, impressive, new Mosaic Stadium, nestled into Evraz Place’s buildings and sporting facilities that can be used for all the events that accompany the Grey Cup Festival. Mosaic will be expanded to 40,000 seats and Rider fans are already hoping the local team wins again, like it did in 2013. That’s about the only thing that can’t be guaranteed.